How Stars Are Born

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Cool animation showing how a cloud of gas turns into a starfield. Animations by Matthew Bate at the University of Exeter.

  1. By: Flightfire
  2. Categories Art & Animation, Travel & Outdoors
  3. Views 3,804
  4. Added :28-Feb-07
  5. Related Link: Matthew Bate's Research
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  • Sorry, I don't understand...

    If the gas gets closer together, would the gas law PV=nRT imply that the pressure increases, meaning that the gas particles would simply be pushed back apart?
    How does a gas cloud collapse into a solid?

    By HanDuet 1172645233
    • gravity

      As mass builds up there's a larger distortion of gravity causing things to be pulled towards the object.

      By Sirisian 1172788787
  • Sweet!

    that was cool

    By evilerniesss 1172640081
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  • Another cartoon posing as science

    This shows that the person who made the animation had a vivid imagination and was skilled with a paint program....nothing more. A person can doodle with a mouse and say "this is how a star forms" but that is not science. It is a cartoon. We have never seen a single star form otherwise we would not be watching an animation, we would be watching a real video.

    By Young_earth_guy 1176333426
    • My Bad

      I forgot to include the link to Matthew Bate's site. It's http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/mbate/Cluster/index.html
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      f you want to go and take a look at the calculations he is performing. It's more of a computer simulation than a sketch animation. The comment that we have never seen a star formed is entirely accurate...because the process takes billions of years. That's like saying we've never seen the tectonic plates move, or the evolution of a species. Some things just take too long to ever train a video camera on them.

      By Flightfire 1176341050
  • excellent vid

    It's really hard to comprehend how the particles interact, but the vid gives an excellent illustration.

    By wolfex 1172668940
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